The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

It's The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 19 🦂 Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived." And Mexico and the US fund "water resiliency" for the Rio Grande, plus more news.. 💦🦂

A new report from Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state shows that noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare. Yet, some politicians are using that myth to push stringent requirements that will prevent eligible Americans from voting. Learn more by subscribing to The Briefing: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

New in The Border Chronicle by @pablodelarosa.bsky.social Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande? 💧🦂 “It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.

Buy Jessica's book. It's great. We promise.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues. theintercept.com/2025/09/17/t...

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived."

‼️ First ICE Air report from @iceflightmonitor and it is amazing work and necessary reading if you want to understand the activities of the ICE Air Machine. Click to and follow.

@pablodelarosa.bsky.social had a great interview with veteran border journalist Angela Kocherga on @texasstandard.bsky.social about this week's Border Chronicle article on SpaceX protests in Tamaulipas. You can listen to the interview here 🦂

Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 The Tower and the Tarantula: Searching for a New Way Forward 24 Years after 9/11 A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.

The Rift in Trump World Over Venezuela. A must-read by the indomitable Greg Grandin theintercept.com/2025/09/09/v...

Comunidades se oponen a SpaceX en Tamaulipas🦂 Un grupo ambientalista Mexicano dice que los lanzamientos de cohetes de Elon Musk desde el sur de Texas están matando tortugas, dañando hogares y ensuciando las playas de Tamaulipas con escombros.

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 Communities Push Back against SpaceX in Tamaulipas A Mexican conservation group says Elon Musk’s rocket launches from South Texas are killing turtles, damaging homes, and littering Tamaulipas beaches with debris.

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

Trump policies driving up electricity prices gasoutlook.com/analysis/tru...

Thank you Sam for the signal boost!

As I explained to the @wsj, designating an entity as a “terrorist” organization does not by itself authorize the use of force. Nor does the 2001 AUMF provide authority to attack criminal groups in Latin America like Tren de Aragua. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

@nickturse.bsky.social at @theintercept.com on just how much it's going to cost the rest of us for Donald Trump to send the National Guard and crew into Chicago. (He estimates $1.5 million a day!)

A high-ranking Pentagon official confirms that Trump's strike on a boat in the Caribbean was a criminal attack on civilians. Two government officials report that Pete Hegseth's rationale for the murder came together after the fact. Trump murdered 11 people. #3E theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...

I had fun including the St. Louis arch in our Friday news roundup this week. I'm attending a conference for independent publishers, held by LION publishing and learning how to grow and expand The Border Chronicle. Check out our news of the week across the U.S.-Mexico border in this week's roundup 🦂

A Reporter’s Journey through the Darién Gap: A Q&A with Author Belén Fernández 🦂 "As a microcosm embodying the chasmic and fortified gap between haves and have-nots, the Darién Gap is as good an expanded U.S. border as any."

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Great episode of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social podcast with @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and Dierdre Conlon discussing their new book, Immigration Detention, Inc. Including subcontractors and the sham oversight/inspections castbox.fm/vb/840657927

It’s Our Fourth Anniversary! 🦂🌞 We launched The Border Chronicle in 2021. At the time, we had no idea how to run a news outlet, but we knew that a publication devoted to the U.S.-Mexico border was badly needed. Read about what we've learned since then, and support our independent journalism🦂

“For the third time in slightly more than a week, grand jurors in Washington have rejected efforts by federal prosecutors to obtain an indictment against a resident accused of a felony assault against a federal agent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

When it comes to substance use disorder, @melodyglenn.bsky.social says we need to spend more resources on harm reduction, treatment, and housing, and less on persecution, criminalization, and incarceration. @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

It's time for The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 29 🦂 Support for Trump going way down in the Rio Grande Valley. And just how much are private companies making on immigration detention again? 😳 Plus, more links to important news from across the U.S.-Mexico border.🦂

Immigration Detention Inc.: A Podcast with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon 🦂 The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.

I believe this is what the kids call performative

One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 Voters’ Regret: Support for Trump Plunges in South Texas “People are starting to have a realization that what they were promised isn’t going to come to fruition and they were lied to ..." Read the full story by our South Texas correspondent @pablodelarosa.bsky.social 🦂

It's The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22🦂 The eery glow of immigration detention prisons at night. It's not border security, it's an act of war. And bring on the peacemakers. Plus, more news from around the border 🦂. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/border-chr...

NIJC's @jessefranzblau.bsky.social joined @theborderchronicle.bsky.social ‪@mdelbosque.bsky.social to discuss how the U.S. built the world's biggest immigration detention system. https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/how-ice-detention-was-built?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity — one that would challenge the community to confront its stereotypes of immigrants and change the makeup and the mission of the church for good."

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral. A DHS spokesperson described the unusual arrangement as temporary. Read the full story at Stripes.com

The California Coastal Commission has unanimously voted against SpaceX’s plan for a dramatic expansion of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, citing environmental and regulatory concerns.

For the roundup🦂 Dr. Melody Glenn, a Tucson ER physician, who works with emergency responders at the border joined us today. The border is not being flood by fentanyl, despite the MAGA rhetoric, she says. Glenn also has great advice on better support systems for people grappling with addiction.🦂

I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

Regulators are not doing their jobs. PJM says something like 80% of price increases are due to data centers. It sure seems like very clear cost-causation. Charge tech the full cost of providing all this power (and/or slow down their interconnection) and protect consumers

This is what fascism looks like — masked agents arriving, uninvited, at a governor’s event to intimidate a political rival. The idea that the Border Patrol would accept such a nakedly authoritarian assignment six months into the Trump admin should terrify us.

Listen up legacy media, if you want to know the truth about the immigration enforcement agencies, you need to have these two on as guests. They are not surprised by any of this & have warned for decades, & this is where you find yourselves. Answers to your ?s are here. @maddow.msnbc.com

"Michael Kozak, the career official who oversees diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere, replied: “Well then we probably should not have asked for him. Can we now extradite him to Spain? We did get the S.O.B. released.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

Thank you Jenn for the signal boost!

WOW. Internal emails obtained by @haleaziz.bsky.social reveal how the State Department scrambled to figure out a PR strategy after they realized the implications of having gotten a triple murderer released from prison decades early. He is current living free in the U.S. thanks to the Trump admin.

It's The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 1 hosted by @mdelbosque.bsky.social & @cetracey.bsky.social What does security actually mean as billions are funneled into walls and armed agents? And a historian explains the complicated story behind the new binational Tijuana River agreement. 🦂

Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days 🤔

What Does Security Really Mean? 🦂 In this new podcast, Melissa and Todd talk about the notion of "border security" as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this? 🦂